Lassie come-home.

Lassie is one of those stories I thought I knew. I finally got around to reading this 1001 Children's Book You Must Read this summer. I was surprised to discover the actual story is very different from my perception of the story.

Lassie is a strikingly beautiful collie owned by a poor family in Great Britain. She is devoted to the boy in the family. The father loses his job and decides to sell the dog to a rich man in the community. The man takes the dog to Scotland, but, somehow, though the distance is enormous, Lassie finds her way back to her family.

Lassie is a genuinely heartwarming story without ever falling into sappiness, and that's a difficult thing to do.